ABC reports: A suburban school district said its system might have been hacked this weekend. Township High School District 211 covers parts of Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights and other northwest suburbs. The district said outgoing emails, phone calls and text messages were compromised Saturday night. But that wasn’t the only suburban district attacked successfully,…
American Bank Systems hit by ransomware attack, full 53 GB data dump leaked
Ax Sharma reports: American Bank Systems (ABS), a company that provides services to U.S. financial institutions and banks helping them “operate efficiently and confidently in a rapidly evolving – highly regulated – environment” has been hit by a ransomware attack this month. Avaddon, the ransomware group behind the attack had earlier alleged they had acquired over…
Umanis hit by NetWalker ransomware?
Valery Marchive reports (translation follows): Umanis declared, this Monday morning November 16, to have been the subject, “like many other companies, of a cyberattack on November 14″. In its press release, also repeated on social networks, the ESN ensures that “the spread of the virus was immediately stopped, thanks to isolation measures. The computer network and applications were disconnected…
Egregor threat actors pose risk to medical and dental entities
While some ransomware threat actors claim that they will not attack medical entities, others have not made any such pledge. In “Without Undue Delay,” DataBreaches.net noted that Egregor ransomware threat actors had added Dyras Dental in Michigan to their leak site in September. As I reported in that paper: The data dumped by the attackers as…
Ransomware-as-a-service: The pandemic within a pandemic
Intel 471 released a new article today that is significant for shining some light into some otherwise murky areas. They write, in part: Intel 471 has been tracking over 25 different ransomware-as-a-service crews over the past year, ranging from well-known groups that have become synonymous with ransomware, to newly-formed variants that have risen from the…
City of Saint John hit by ‘significant’ cyber attack
CBC reports that one of my favorite Canadian locales has been hit by a cyberattack. There’s been a “significant” cyber attack against the City of Saint John, according to a news release from the municipality on Sunday evening. The city’s 911 communication system is working, but other services such as online payments systems, email and…